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Woz
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-1 to TBO on slicks it would kill the TBO class

I would prefer some RWD cars that would sit in the FXR,UFR class that had slick.

Come on, seriously... We would be FORCED to use slicks. Who uses road normals on TBO? People have to use supers or you don't stand a chance.

I get the feel this sort of thread, like many others is just a cry for new content or some form of a change.
Insane bike
Woz
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Now that fuel prices are really starting to bite it makes sense to switch to a nice cheap to run bike.

6.7ltr monster with 523 foot-pounds of torque (OMFG)

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/07/a-410-cubic-inc.html
Woz
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Quote from djhertz :looks like i've made quite a discussion about this... i thought maybe there was something just to disable so it doesnt burn out.. its rather annoying... i'm changing like i do in my car... and my clutch doesnt burn !
lol
kinda not that realistic.
version older than this was better.

Post a replay. Whenever ANYONE says its wrong they are NEVER willing to post a replay to show what they believe is the issue.

As others have said, only a few complain and they are ALWAYS at fault.

BTW: If you have not tweaked you clutch pedal in DXTweak your clutch on the G25 does not operate ANYTHING like yours real cars pedal. By default with G25 the clutch is on ever fully in when pressed 100% down and fully out when lifted 100%. Your real car probably has about 20-30% of travel that actually does anything.
Woz
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Quote from mrodgers :How about videos? I had planned on fabbing up a little camera mount since I got my new digital last Christmas. It take quite nice 640x480 video at 30 FPS.

I turn out of the driveway.
Turn off my road.
Turn off that road onto the main road.
Drive straight.
Drive straight.
Drive straight.
Drive straight.
Small bend.
Drive straight.
Drive straight.
Another somewhat larger bend.
Drive straight.
Drive straight.
etc, etc.
And finally turn off the main road and twist the wheel back and forth while also driving up and down. It's windy, wouldn't really call them corners though.

I must admit, some of what I counted as corners was a bit of a streach but otherwise I might have argued loads away

Some were probably 5deg turns in road direction. I based on the fact that if I could look at side of the road in the distance and see the direction change at a point it was a corner.
Woz
S2 licensed
Wow, a lot more than I realised. A total of 38 in 54Km including the turn out of my drive and the turn into the carpark.

The first 20km has about 4 corners but there are a fair number of S bend kinks that brings the number up.

so my average is 1 corner per 1.42Km
Woz
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For me its a matter of depth. Samples give more instant wow factor but can never give the detail of a synth based system. I love the way you can hear the engine bog down when you bodge using the clutch and also hear the engine try to spin up and rev match if you fail to do it yourself
Woz
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Quote from Blas89 :Omg a dingo!! Careful!

Edit: Doh I saw an australian flag... whatever, 32 turns.

nooooooo Its an NZ flag. Dont confuse the West Island with NZ lol

BTW: Didnt come back my normal route so will count on the way in.

I am just glad I do not have to drive Tram Road 32Km straight line.
Woz
S2 licensed
I will count on the way home tonight

One question becomes how much of a kink is required before it becomes a corner? 10deg change, 15 etc.

I will work on any change in direction
Woz
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Quote from wien :No.

Shows the last time I really worked in C++, I am more C# nowdays.

Cant understand why void main() was blocked though tbh. It it is required for any bootstrap/startup could it could just handle void main() {} as the same as int main() { return 0; }. Just a bit too anal.

Probably why I moved to c#, to avoid the baggage C++ carries with it. C# really is a far nicer language, all the benefits of C++ without all the crap that was layered over it.
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Woz
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Sorry but I have to ask, Since when has void main() not been valid. void main() is valid no matter what, main does not NEED to return anything.

It might be "more correct" in ansi C++ but no less valid.
How many corners challenge!
Woz
S2 licensed
Right, I drive across the Canterbury planes into the edge of Christchurch near the airport each day to work. The total distance each way is about 54Km.

The plain have VERY sparse population density and lots of straight road. Lets see who can guess closest to the number of corners I have to take in the journey door to door.

We also need to define what a corner means. Is is a 10degrees kink in the road? 5deg?

I have never really counted so this should be interesting, how many corner per/Km lol

The longest straight road on the plains in about 30Kn without a corner at all. I am happy to say I dont have to take that road, its a nightmare
Woz
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Quote from Frost_More :Nope I have a 512mb Vid card with DDR 3. Only thing that is a bit sucky atm is my CPU, thats a P4 2.6. Well I will give it a go and see what comes out of it

Should be fine then with that GFX card. As you say, sounds like your CPU is the actual choke point
Woz
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Quote from Ashley Williams :Hi all

I would like to be able to run R1 tyres on all road cars not r2 and above just r1's as i think the road cars really do lack good tyres.

A

Pointless for most of the cars and if allowed EVERYONE would be FORCED to use to keep up. The charm of the road cars is the fact they are NOT on slicks
Woz
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Quote from bbman :The tracks by Virtua_LM are very good (Le Mans, Rouen Les Essarts and Mid-Ohio)... The new Nordschleife and Le Mas du Clos are also very good...

Thanks I will give them a go.

Quote from JJ72 :Rfactor isn't anywhere near a system hog?

At least I can run 70AI on lemans with no problem, there's quite a performance leap with the 1.25.5 patch and multi-core enabled.

lol, you need serious hardward to get the GFX detail up anywhere near the quality of GFX that LFS gives, otherwise its just blur city and looks like a V old game tbh. System requirements are far far higher than LFS.
Woz
S2 licensed
Quote from JO53PHS :Must have been a dodgy install... downloaded + installed again and it works fine now

Thought it must be something dodgy as even the express includes form designer. Have fun.
Woz
S2 licensed
Quote from Frost_More :Hey guys,

I have no clue where to put this so I just gonna put it here.

I'm thinking of getting some lfscredit to get the High res skins, but now I'm wondering if it would suck up much fps?

On a full grid I have around 20-25 fps. So if it will drop allot I will not purchase the skins else I will think about it.

Your opinions please!

*Edit* Could a mod please edit the title? to 1024x skins or something I forgot to put it there .

It could hammer your fps. If you only have a 64Mb GFX card it could kill your frame rates once you cross the line into swapping memory
Woz
S2 licensed
Quote from bbman :You don't understand, it's not about not being able to do it... Only endurance races/rally are in the dark, but most sim-leagues are set in the evenings due to (most of) us having a life... Does that mean we only have to drive in the dark? And you are able to pick when it's day or night, that's why there is a schedule set for each racing event, you know...

Would you want ALL your races to be in the dark, as all of LfS' tracks with the exception of Fern Bay are on the other side of the world?

As I said, make PRIVATE servers able to select weather and public servers subject to weather. Show me a league server that is not private and I will show you a moron admin

Time of day should not be on a central server though because the world is a big place and places like NZ people would be forced to race at night all the time because of the time shifts, just stupid.
Woz
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Quote from major_syphillis :what are the prices for frex? no mention of them on their site, their site baiscally sucks

Frex take existing wheels and mod them up so I would guess take the cost of the donor wheel and at least double it and possibly add some more

I think all their prices are in Yen last time I looked.
Woz
S2 licensed
LFS will use DX to give AA control while CP route is direct control in the drivers. Do what works best for you
Woz
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It sounds like your install could be corrupt, no being able to switch to designer view with a blank form sounds messed up to say the least.

What version of VS are you using, that said even the free one comes with form designer.

If you are on Vista try giving VS admin privs and make sure your user is configured as admin. Dev environments are harsh on a machine as they allow access down into the guts of Windows and install system level hooks all over the place to allow debugging etc.
Woz
S2 licensed
People say the GFX are better in rF but I recently re-installed rF to take a look as my new lappy is capable enough to run the monster system hog.

I have to say I have yet to find a track in rF that looks anything as good as BL or SO. I have LFS GFX almost maxed and apart from the day/night lighting every track I have found for rF just looks cartoon and the corners and racing line are more just a connected set of straight lines instead of a curve.

Can someone please point me in the direction of a track that is even close to the quality of some of the LFS tracks GFX wise so I can download and try it.
Woz
S2 licensed
Get rid of some of the clutter like MS Office and other no vital stuff to make space for vital things like LFS
Woz
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Quote from Juls :What makes you think we were not using MVC ? Of course we used MVC we are not totally crazy
Sorry for OT

Its just the way you said you could not nunit the UI. All you need is tests up to the controller. The view should have zero code of worth or complexity if done right and you can drive and test everything through the controller

That said, it took my company quiet a while to bite the bullet and use tests. Months of kicking and fighting and it has push out or timelines a HUGE amount. It has already paid for itself though.

It did take a good 6 months to find our feet though and get a solid frame in place

Quote from Scawen :My style is more C style but using many C++ features that benefit me, most functions are of course in classes though my classes are 'struct' rather than 'class' because I don't really need to protect everything from myself so don't need to bother with private and public members and functions. I don't use all these overridden operators and allowing the code to create temporary things on its own. It's more function calls with pointers so that's what I mean it's kind of C style. Semi object oriented you could say but keeping it very clear so I really know what the code is doing, not allowing it to do all its "clever stuff" behind the scenes.

Sounds more like Object C, the language that was the stepping stone between C and C++

Makes sense TBH. As soon as you start to add virtual routing and the clutter that true OO in C++ brings you are just adding complexity that is not required when speed is the key, as is the case with LFS

1 letter variables I remember those days

char c = ...
for (int i = ...

Those 2 are a habbit I still find hard to shake 20 years later lol
Woz
S2 licensed
Quick question on the project. Is this one you have grabbed from somewhere else or a form you have constructed.

If is comes from somewhgere else its hard to say but they might have a copy of VS higher up the chain than yours and have assemblies you dont have access to, If you have constructed the form the question becomes what was the last thing you did before you got the error, this is normally the cause.
Woz
S2 licensed
+1 from me. Has come up before though a few times.

Quote from evilpimp :Although it could be good I don't think it should be done because some leagues use the place of the track IRL to determine wether they will use wind or not etc.

Just make private servers have selectable weather and all public servers subject to different conditions. Job done Cant see any league race ever being run on public servers, too much risk of wreckers etc.

I know some people prefer no wind etc so they can get PBs but who cares. The better driver is the one that can deal with whatever is thrown at them
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